"AND IT WAS OIL."
STORY OF A LOST CONTRACT. By Talogriph—Pr'esi Association—Copyright Sydney, August 28. Mr. John Brown, a Nowcastlo colliery proprietor, giving evidence before the Miners'' Wages Board, said that lie was recently offered a two years! contract for, supplying coal, but lost it because ho could not give a guarantee of continuity in supply. „ Tho opening of tho Panama Canal, ho said, would cause Nowcastlo to lose all its trade to tho West Coast of South America, which would be -transferred to tho United States, and it would also havo competition from India and China. " "The people negotiating said: 'It will bo oil or coal,' and it was oil," ho added.:.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 7
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